Distance
5,585 Km
Northern Virginia ↔ Frankfurt
A major transatlantic route linking cloud-heavy Ashburn infrastructure with Europe's busiest exchange hub.
Latency (avg)
71ms
Active Carriers
43
Data Centers Connected
21
Summary
This corridor supports hyperscale cloud traffic, enterprise workloads, and major exchange connectivity.
Ashburn's dense availability zones pair with Frankfurt's financial and peering ecosystem for resilient route planning.
Subsea Systems
TGN-Atlantic,AEConnect-1,Apollo
Carriers
Top Carriers on This Corridor
Lumen Technologies
Arelion
GTT
Colt
Data Centers
Data Centers Connected by This Route
Equinix DC6
Ashburn
Digital Realty FRA1
Frankfurt
Interxion FRA10
(Frankfurt)
CyrusOne Ashburn
(Virginia)
Exchanges
Major exchanges
DE-CIX
LINX NoVA
AMS-IX
Equinix Fabric
Vendors
Equipment providers
Nokia
Ciena
Juniper
Cisco
Last-Mile Fiber Providers
Regional and Last-Mile Fiber Providers
Zayo
Crown Castle
euNetworks
AT&T
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Choosing Between Carrier Diversity and Lowest Cost
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